Society of the Snow review – nerve-shredding Andes plane crash drama – The Guardian
Nervous flyers, look away now. The Spanish director JA Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom; The Unattainable) brings his appreciable abilities as an motion director to the much-filmed real-life story of the crash of Uruguayan air pressure flight 571 within the icy peaks of the Andes in 1972. The incident, and the following 72-day ordeal of the survivors, who needed to resort to cannibalism, has been the topic of quite a few documentaries and films (together with Frank Marshall’s Alive). However for the visceral, teeth-rattling depth of its airplane crash sequence, and a subsequent, equally heart-stopping avalanche, Society of the Snow is in a league of its personal.
After all, this can be a story of survival and endurance, so the nerve- and fuselage-shredding crash is barely a small a part of the image. A lot of the movie is taken up with ready, and with wrangling the difficult ethical points inherent in staying alive. However whereas there are moments wherein the movie’s beneficiant working time begins to take its toll, Bayona’s good move to make this a story of each the survivors and victims brings a nervy uncertainty to the story, even when everyone knows broadly the way it ends.
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